Third floor common room [evening]

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It was slowly ticking towards curfew but it wasn't bothering Luke overly much. He'd discovered a marathon of old Galaxy Quest episodes and was entirely too caught up in laughing until he cried at the terrible dialogue and sound effects.

He'd made popcorn--without burning it!--and even though he'd then dumped a bag of M&Ms into it, he was up for sharing.

Man On The Moon - R.E.M.

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[ashockingbitch]

"Well, there goes my 'in the future we'll have no morals' theory," Jenny muttered. "I blame my successor."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"...successor?"

[ashockingbitch]

"Well, it's certainly not my fault!" Jenny said indignantly. "I did my bit!"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Of course you did," Luke soothed. "I'm from a different galaxy, if it makes it better..."

[ashockingbitch]

"It does," Jenny said cheerily as she reached into her pocket for her cigarettes. "I can't be blamed for what happens in another galaxy, can I? You go right ahead and be a prude, then."

Jenny seemed unaware that she had just called Luke a prude.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"I'm not a prude!" Luke protested.

Luke was wrong.

[ashockingbitch]

"'Course you're not," Jenny said in her best consoling voice. It came off more dismissive. Oh, Jenny.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke sulked more. "I've been in a cantina and watched a guy get his arm chopped off!" he claimed. "And I've almost danced with a Twi'lek dancing girl."

Pause.

"But then my uncle found me."

[ashockingbitch]

It was the 'almost' that got her, even before he got to the part about his uncle. Jenny snorted smoke up her nose. "Sorry. I believe you, really, I do. You're a right playboy, you are."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"That's right," Luke said petulantly. "And I have a girlfriend."

[ashockingbitch]

"Do you, now?" Jenny asked. "Have you gotten to first base, then?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"...there are sports involved?"

Way to lose at terminology, Luke.

[ashockingbitch]

Maybe he was Amish. Only, you know, space Amish. "Girls love baseball, didn't you know?" Jenny asked brightly.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"She's never mentioned that," Luke said, looking a little panicked. "What if I'm doing this wrong?"

[ashockingbitch]

Jenny considered slinging an arm companionably around Luke's shoulders, then thought that might be a little too forward and blow her cover. "Nah, I'm sure you're doing fine, ladie's man like you. Just need to brush up on your baseball, is all. D'you know who won the World Series?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"...no," Luke said, looking more panicked.

[ashockingbitch]

Damn. Jenny didn't know, either. She'd been hoping he could tell her. "Well, that's a good place to start, then, isn't it?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Very," Luke said, nodding vigorously. "Thanks!"

He blushed. "I'm Luke, by the way. I don't think I've introduced myself before."

[ashockingbitch]

"I'm Jenny Sparks," said Jenny. "Nice to torment meet you, Luke."